Please answer part D to the below four part question. I've included the answers for the first three parts as you will need to reference these previous answers. Mr. John produces a special type of shoes on an assembly line. The process involves eight different tasks. Mr. John would like to increase productivity on this line and asked you for some assistance. He would like to balance the assembly line in order to reduce idle time and increase efficiency. a. What information would you need in order to demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the assembly line? The information required to efficiently balance the assembly line is to know about the actual capacity the line is running at and to know about the bottlenecks of the assembly line. A bottleneck occurs when a particular workstation takes a longer duration which reduces the flow of the entire process. If actual current capacity and bottlenecks are known, then it will Such is the information required to balance the assembly line. It is all related to maintaining consistency when it comes to assembly line manufacturing. If bottlenecks are improved, cycle time is improved, thereby enhancing consistency. b. Setup an example that will be used to demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the line. Individual J can be provided with an example by proving an insight into what may happen if bottlenecks are not monitored in time. This example can be demonstrated by taking a certain figure as the total number of outputs to be produced and computing the average time taken by the assembly line to manufacture the output each hour. This will be the perfect example to see if by any measure productivity of each hour can be improved or not. c. Using the example that you setup in “b” above, demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the line using the LOT heuristics. Heuristics is considered an approach to problem-solving where an attempt is made to resolve the issue within the shortest time possible. Using the example provided in the previous part, lot heuristics can be used efficiently to banalace the assembly line. There are three heuristics namely static, dynamic, and periodic. Each of these techniques has its own pros and cons but it is up to the organization to decide which technique will best balance the assembly line. d. Based on the example above, calculate the efficiency of the line.
Please answer part D to the below four part question. I've included the answers for the first three parts as you will need to reference these previous answers.
Mr. John produces a special type of shoes on an assembly line. The process involves eight different tasks. Mr. John would like to increase productivity on this line and asked you for some assistance. He would like to balance the assembly line in order to reduce idle time and increase efficiency.
a. What information would you need in order to demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the assembly line?
The information required to efficiently balance the assembly line is to know about the actual capacity the line is running at and to know about the bottlenecks of the assembly line. A bottleneck occurs when a particular workstation takes a longer duration which reduces the flow of the entire process. If actual current capacity and bottlenecks are known, then it will Such is the information required to balance the assembly line. It is all related to maintaining consistency when it comes to assembly line manufacturing. If bottlenecks are improved, cycle time is improved, thereby enhancing consistency.
b. Setup an example that will be used to demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the line.
Individual J can be provided with an example by proving an insight into what may happen if bottlenecks are not monitored in time. This example can be demonstrated by taking a certain figure as the total number of outputs to be produced and computing the average time taken by the assembly line to manufacture the output each hour. This will be the perfect example to see if by any measure productivity of each hour can be improved or not.
c. Using the example that you setup in “b” above, demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the line using the LOT heuristics.
Heuristics is considered an approach to problem-solving where an attempt is made to resolve the issue within the shortest time possible. Using the example provided in the previous part, lot heuristics can be used efficiently to banalace the assembly line. There are three heuristics namely static, dynamic, and periodic. Each of these techniques has its own pros and cons but it is up to the organization to decide which technique will best balance the assembly line.
d. Based on the example above, calculate the efficiency of the line.
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